521: The Banner of Ten Thousand Beasts and Response to Lanling Island (2-in-1, please vote for me)

After collecting the Storage Pouch, Real Person Hongye's expression remained unchanged, but from her demeanor, it was clear she had become more amiable.

As the two exchanged toasts, their conversation naturally grew more extensive.

The jade ambrosia dew itself was a refreshing and excellent spirit tea.

"Junior Brother Lin, I hope you'll make several preparations when the time comes. If Nine Yue Island and Shuangmu Island need to be abandoned, then abandon them!"

"If this calamity ends, the sea will be reshuffled, and there will be plenty of territories and Spiritual Veins!" Real Person Hongye advised.

When she said this, Real Person Hongye was extremely serious!

"Thank you for the Senior Sister's advice!" Hearing this, Shiming couldn't help but frown.

According to Real Person Hongye, even Hongye Island might have to be abandoned at that time.

Only Nine Dragon Island would bear the pressure from this side.

At that time, Shiming might have to collect the Lin Family's important pavilions and treasures, such as the Four Great Sword Pavilion, Spirit Talisman Pavilion, and Illusion Heart Pavilion, in advance.

"Furthermore, always have a backup plan. Although Golden Thunder is overbearing, he is not reckless. The forces supporting him from behind should not be weak!"

"It might be the Heavenly Illumination Sect, but it could also be more than just the Heavenly Illumination Sect. The Chilan Sect might also make a move, and there could even be Cultivators from other places..."

After Real Person Hongye finished speaking, she also drank the jade ambrosia dew in one gulp.

Leaving Shiming to fall into deep thought.

Her words made Shiming think of the Heavenly Demon Sect!

With the Heavenly Demon Sect's strength, it wouldn't be a problem to support five or six Golden Cores in the South Sea via Teleportation Arrays.

After all, if their Golden Cores came to the South Sea, no one in the Eastern Region would know, and they could even take the opportunity to wipe out the Lin Family!

Shiming had worried about this before, and now it aligned with his concerns.

So, this matter was certainly not groundless.

"Thank you, Senior Sister Hongye, this matter is of great use to me!" Shiming thanked her repeatedly, also draining his spirit tea.

If the Heavenly Demon Sect was involved, Shiming thought of a good helper.

At this time, the Qingxuan Sect was probably already impatient.

Shiming estimated that the Qingxuan Sect's hundred years of accumulation were not simple. Their willingness to bring out a war treasure ship indicated that they had made good use of the Tai Bai Sword Palace's small half of the scripture tower and had gained a lot.

It was estimated that in recent years, many Golden Cores had recovered.

After chatting with Real Person Hongye for a long time, Shiming also bid farewell. On Hongye Island, he found the Lin Family Restaurant and settled in.

Due to the existence of daughter red wine, the Lin Family had now opened Lin Family Restaurants on many islands.

As for the Alchemy Pavilion and Artifact Refining Pavilion, they had not been opened externally.

The main reason was that the Lin Family currently lacked Fourth-tier Alchemists and Fourth-tier Artifact Refiners.

The Lin Family's restaurant on Hongye Island only had four floors, one less than the Hongye Island's own restaurants, which was also a rule.

The person in charge here was a Ze Generation Foundation Establishment Cultivator, with a stable appearance. Shiming didn't chat much and went directly to the fourth floor, found a room, and began to study the newly acquired Book of Hidden Paths page.

This page of the Book of Hidden Paths was different from the previous one. It had clearly been studied countless times by Loose Cultivator Guanghao.

If it weren't for the System's prompt, Shiming really wouldn't have found it. Of course, it was also a coincidence!

Shiming summoned the Book of Hidden Paths, and as this page re-integrated.

A white jade-like Spirit Light slowly merged together.

The next moment, a more powerful Spiritual Qi fluctuation appeared in Shiming's mind, causing him to tremble.

And the Treasure Unlocking Art of the Book of Hidden Paths, when it started to operate, suddenly became more obscure.

In a flash, the Treasure Unlocking Art seemed to have completed its transformation.

This startled him. He was about to reach a critical moment, and if he couldn't use the Book of Hidden Paths at this point, his means would be severely diminished.

This was not what he wanted to see.

Fortunately, as the Treasure Unlocking Art slowly operated, that obscure feeling gradually disappeared.

However, the pressure he had to endure was twice that of before.

Moreover, he had a feeling in his heart that the level of the Book of Hidden Paths seemed to be one level higher than a damaged Spirit Treasure!

He opened the Formation in the room and also released the Book of Hidden Paths' page space.

As the space compressed, Shiming found that his control within the Book of Hidden Paths space was now stronger.

If he were to confront that Late Golden Core Stage Blue Jiaolong now, he would definitely not be limited to just a Divine Sense battle as before.

One must know that a Divine Sense battle with a Yao Race was still acceptable, but against a Human Race Late Golden Core Stage, it was almost certain death!

Even if Shiming's Divine Sense reached the Middle Golden Core Stage and he had Divine Sense Weapons from the Soul Fusion Secret Canon.

But the gap in Divine Sense was like a chasm after all.

Even Earth Rank secret arts couldn't bridge it.

Now the suppression was greater. As long as he could get the opponent into the Book of Hidden Paths, his chances of winning would almost double.

Coupled with his Sword Intent and Late Golden Core Stage Spirit Puppet, his chances of winning would be much greater.

In fact, at this moment, he even looked forward to True Person Liuhe trying him.

However, he quickly shook his head. True Person Liuhe's six Clones were also extremely powerful, and when combined, they could almost be equivalent to five or six Late Golden Core Stage Cultivators.

Shiming studied the Book of Hidden Paths space for a while and became even more eager to find more pages.

Then, he exited the space and began to check what kind of treasure the new page was.

The previous page was the Earth Rank secret art, Soul Fusion Secret Canon, so this time, he also looked forward to a new treasure.

As the last page was turned, a huge Soul Banner was revealed.

This Soul Banner was different from the Heavenly Demon Banner of the Heavenly Demon Sect, which was full of Devil Heads.

This one, however, contained the soul shadows of myriad beasts.

And this giant banner was named the Myriad Beast Banner!

This Myriad Beast Banner Magic Treasure, with the souls of myriad beasts within it, was a Late Golden Core Stage Magic Treasure!

According to the description, if it could contain the soul of a Late Nascent Soul Yao Beast, and the number of beast souls reached one hundred thousand, it could automatically upgrade to a Sixth-tier Magic Treasure!

This was what made Shiming most excited.

And most importantly, Shiming was not unfamiliar with the main material of this Myriad Beast Banner, and he happened to have it: nether dark iron wood. The refining difficulty was not particularly high either.

Shiming glanced at the refining method and was extremely satisfied with the refining method of the Myriad Beast Banner.

This Myriad Beast Banner would not only be usable by him in the future, but other Golden Cores of the Lin Family could also refine it.

It was much better than refining a Fifth-tier Spirit Puppet with nether dark iron wood.

Shiming joyfully put away the Book of Hidden Paths and then began to quietly Cultivate the Soul Fusion Secret Canon.

The closer the Golden Core Grand Assembly got, the more sense of urgency Shiming felt.

This short period of time was not suitable for secluded cultivation, but it was suitable for training Divine Sense.

Strong Divine Sense often had miraculous effects.

With the Divine Sense Sword and Divine Sense Spear both condensed, Shiming was now beginning to condense the Divine Sense Axe.

The runes of each Divine Sense Weapon were different, and condensing them was like starting anew each time.

He condensed them one by one, then struck them onto the Divine Sense Weapon.

Shiming was now somewhat looking forward to the power of all eight Divine Sense Weapons gathered together.

As time passed, Shiming's room fell into a quiet stillness.

After a long while, as a Spirit Light pierced through the sky, a Spirit Talisman landed in Shiming's room.

Shiming also opened his eyes and picked up the Spirit Talisman on the table.

After a glance, he hurriedly headed towards the Teleportation Array.

Hongye Island's Teleportation Array was built to be extremely large, capable of connecting to the twelve inner islands of the Coral Alliance, as well as the twelve outer islands of the Hongye Islands.

And even some more famous outer islands.

For example, Nine Yue Island.

Before the Teleportation Array, Real Person Hongye was already there, and besides her, Tian Liu True Person and Real Person Yunli were also present.

Tian Liu True Person still wore a willow robe, exceptionally beautiful, while Real Person Yunli wore his characteristic coral red shirt, with a pleasant demeanor.

As the diplomatic Immortal Master of Coral Island, Real Person Yunli was exceptionally skilled in social graces.

"Senior Brother Yunli, Senior Sister Liu Ye, Senior Sister Hongye!" Shiming saluted them one by one.

The three also responded one by one.

"Fellow Daoists, this matter is of great importance and cannot be delayed any longer. We must go immediately!" Real Person Hongye handed a Jade Slip to the two for inspection.

After reading it, their expressions were the same as Shiming's when he first saw it.

For Golden Core Immortal Masters like them, sometimes, the truthfulness of evidence was far less important than imagined.

"Let's go to Lanling Island now!" Tian Liu True Person nodded and was the first to speak.

Once she spoke, the other two had no objections.

The Teleportation Array immediately began to light up, emitting a blazing white light.

The four walked into the Teleportation Array, and with a burst of spiritual light, disappeared within the Teleportation Array... Lanling Island, unlike the eternal spring of Hongye Island, had generally very low temperatures. At this moment, even light snowflakes were drifting in the sky.

The snowflakes fell in the sky, extremely beautiful, and were then isolated by a spiritual shield in the sky above Lanling Island.

Looking into the distance, one could see vast stretches of white scenery across the mountains.

The slightly higher peaks on the island were also white, almost entirely covered in ice and snow.

Lanling Island's Teleportation Array was as large as Hongye Island's, with dozens of Teleportation Arrays connecting to different places.

For the major inner islands, Teleportation Arrays would not pass through a single portal. This ensured that any Teleportation Array could be immediately shut down if needed.

Moreover, the Formation for damaging and shutting down Teleportation Arrays also had backups within Lanling Island.

They could be remotely shut down at any time.

However, as soon as the four appeared, several Purple Mansion Cultivators came forward, seemingly to habitually question them. But after clearly seeing the faces of the four, they all involuntarily retreated.

"Where is Lanling True Person? Bring out all the Immortal Masters of Lanling Island!" Real Person Yunli spoke.

He also took out a blood-red coral token.

On the token, the characters 'Coral' were written, followed by the signature 'Elder'.

It indicated that Real Person Yunli was an enforcement Elder of the Coral Alliance.

"Reporting to Senior Yunli, Lanling True Person is in secluded cultivation, and Xuanbing True Person is also in secluded cultivation!" The Purple Mansion Cultivator immediately replied.

Then, as if somewhat worried, he added again:

"They are all death-level secluded cultivations, not coming out until their cultivation breaks through!"

Real Person Yunli's face immediately turned a little ugly. How could he not know?

This was Lanling True Person hiding from them.

At this point in time, going into death-level secluded cultivation either meant betraying them by joining Golden Thunder Island with ill intentions, or already dying with their soul jade shattered.

But the latter was clearly impossible; the former was 100% probable.

It was likely that Lanling True Person had already anticipated the arrival of Shiming and the others.

Now, as long as they didn't appear, they wouldn't have any problems.

They might even have already abandoned Lanling Island.

The key was that the Coral Alliance couldn't convict Lanling True Person and Xuanbing True Person until they appeared.

This was a rule established at the beginning of the Coral Alliance.

Unless they called one-third of the Elders.

And if he guessed correctly, the secluded cultivation places of those Immortal Masters were not on Lanling Island, but on Golden Thunder Island, just waiting for the change to come.

Shiming and the others coming here might just be a wasted trip, a fruitless endeavor.

Real Person Yunli looked at Tian Liu True Person and Real Person Hongye. Being courteous, he could use his authority to pressure them.

But in terms of strength, he was far inferior.

He could only leave it to the latter.

"Where is the death-level secluded cultivation place?" Tian Liu True Person asked.

"Reporting to Senior, this Junior is also unsure!" The Purple Mansion Cultivator trembled, not daring to breathe loudly.

He deeply regretted why he had been so foolish today as to come to the Teleportation Array to profit.

"Unsure?" Tian Liu True Person's tone became extremely cold as she asked again.

"Really unsure, the Immortal Masters disappeared three years ago!" The Purple Mansion Cultivator immediately knelt.

Shiming, seeing this, also felt it was troublesome.

Lanling Island was clearly prepared.

They were also prepared for them to exert pressure.

Tian Liu True Person's face instantly turned cold, and a Jade Slip struck into the sky above Lanling Island. In an instant, the scene transformed into a huge spiritual projection.

It was broadcast throughout Lanling Island, and every Cultivator could see this scene by looking up.

A giant willow tree rooted itself in the Void Realm, and a terrifying aura erupted on Lanling Island.

Everyone prostrated themselves beneath the giant willow tree's spiritual projection.

Their breathing became rapid.

"Today, Lanling Island is colluding with Yao Beasts, with conclusive evidence. If Lanling True Person does not appeal within one month, she will be judged by default for her actions!"

"At the same time, it will be considered fleeing in fear of punishment. After one month, with the help of the Heavenly Secret Immortal Master of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion to deduce her location, she will be executed!"

As soon as these words came out, the entire Lanling Island was shocked.

Lanling True Person was one of the twelve inner island masters, and now she was to be removed for colluding with Yao Beasts.

Moreover, if she didn't come out to prove her innocence, she would even be killed.

While everyone was discussing, Tian Liu True Person also led the other three towards Lanling Palace. They would wait for one month.

They would see if Lanling True Person would come out.

If she didn't come out, Lanling Island would change hands, and she would also be deduced by the Heavenly Secret Immortal Master.

If the deduction was successful, and she was on Golden Thunder Island, that would be even better, as they could take out Golden Thunder Island along with her in advance.

It didn't matter if she was elsewhere.

The accusation was made.

It wouldn't be so easy to take it off.

At the same time, Lanling True Person's influence would be minimal, and it would be even more impossible for her to organize an army of Cultivators for expansion.

By then, whether Lanling True Person was there or not wouldn't have a big impact. She still believed that many families would be eyeing the entire island once it was distributed.

"Senior Sister Tian Liu, are we really waiting for a month?" Real Person Hongye hesitated.

"Half a month is enough. We'll capture her early, catching her off guard." Tian Liu True Person said confidently.

As soon as these words came out, the other three nodded repeatedly.

If you don't fight, your Dao Heart will be flawed. This is a situation that cannot be avoided, no matter what.

Unless he could also receive prompts like Shiming.

"Furthermore, all Purple Mansion Cultivators belonging to Lanling Island are required to gather. If they don't arrive within three days, they will all be considered fleeing in fear of punishment!" Tian Liu True Person spoke again.

If the previous statements only concerned Lanling True Person and Xuanbing True Person, then at this moment, all Purple Mansion Cultivators began to worry.